Teacher applicant hiring and teacher performance: Evidence from DC public schools

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jacob, Brian A.; Rockoff, Jonah E.; Taylor, Eric S.; Lindy, Benjamin; Rosen, Rachel
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Columbia University; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.08.011
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 81-97
• 关键词: teachers; hiring; screening; Job performance

摘要

Selecting more productive employees among a pool of job applicants can be a cost-effective means of improving organizational performance and may be particularly important in the public sector. We study the relationship among applicant characteristics, hiring outcomes, and job performance for teachers in the Washington DC Public Schools. Applicants' academic background (e.g., undergraduate GPA) is essentially uncorrelated with hiring. Screening measures (written assessments, interviews, and sample lessons) help applicants get jobs by placing them on a list of recommended candidates, but they are only weakly associated with the likelihood of being hired conditional on making the list. Yet both academic background and screening measures strongly predict teacher job performance, suggesting considerable scope for improving schools via the selection process. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.